Wonderful class, interesting topics/lectures, appropriately difficult for a 300-level course

Be prepared to apply the concepts learned to new situations you haven't seen before. Even if your answer is wrong, a good explanation of your thought process will give you significant partial credit. Understand dimensional analysis. There are a lot of problems on exams and problem sets where this will help. (Context: programming assignments were modifications to the Inferno OS) Write GOOD code. Follow the practices that have already been established in the OS code base.